Estate Fund Distribution

First, please do yourself a very big favor and have the executor hire an estate attorney. I would not recommend any distributions without estate...

You can hire a lawyer to represent you as co-executor and you would be well advised to do so. You could try and convince your brother to renounce...

Are changes to beneficiares acceptable if they are filed 5 days prior to death?

The timing of the change is not necessarily the issue.The question is the reason for the change. Did your sister want to benefit your niece only...

Distribution of estate funds. We are a family of 6 kids, 5 want to distribute some funds equally the 6th is being difficult.

If you can't get the 6th's consent (which seems to be the case now) have the executor go to court to get approval of his accounting (hopefully he...

Living trust, and beneficary going to trustee

If your sibling is the sole trustee of your dad's living trust (which to me is suspicious) then she can make such changes if your father agreed and...

Want to be removed from will

You can disclaim the house, or choose not to accept it, by having counsel file the appropriate document with the Surrogate. The house then passes...

Is there a way to compel my brother to buy me out of the home we inherited from our parents?

Yes your brother will be ordered to sell the house and vacate if he cant buy you out. You need to obtain an attorney to file an Order to Show Cause...

My husband died without a will. House is in his name, little money in bank. Which i used to pay house bills.

You need to apply for administration as the surviving spouse who has the first right to do so in NJ. A notice to creditors (not debtors) is...

In New Jersey , is money inherited by a spouse available to the other spouse while they are still married?

You have no right of inheritance from an in- law or for that matter a parent. If your mother-in-law leaves some assets to your husband and children...

Brother is exectutor of parents estate living in house 4.5 years since there passing. Bank account has been depleted.

If you and your siblings are entitled to share in the estate (the house and bank account) your brother is completeley in vioation of his fiduciary...